Shobha Karandlaje (born 23 October 1966) is an Indian BJP

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from

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who is currently serving as the Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare in the

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. She is also the Vice President of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka and Member of Parliament representing Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha Constituency. She was a cabinet minister in the

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. She is a close confidant to Karnataka ex Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

Early life

Hailing from Puttur in Coastal Karnataka, Shobha became associated with the

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at a very early age, one of the many women full-time workers of the

. When she decided to enter politics, the RSS gave her the initial thrust. Shobha completed her M.A. in

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and

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from Open University, Mysore and School of Social Work Roshni Nilaya,

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Political career

She served the

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organisation in various capacities before being elected as an MLC in 2004. She was elected as MLA from

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in May 2008 and was appointed the minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj in the B S Yeddyurappa govt. She was lauded for her performance as the RDPR minister and came to be known as a good administrator. She resigned in 2009 due to a political crisis but was re-instated in 2010 and was entrusted with the Energy portfolio. She was the power minister in the

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ministry and also had the additional charge of the Food and Civil Supplies department. She had resigned from

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and joined KJP formed by ex Chief Minister of Karnataka

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in the year 2012. And was appointed KJP Working President. She contested 2013 assembly election from Rajaji Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and came third. By January 2014 she was back in BJP when her party KJP merged with BJP. She then contested the

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from Udupi Chikmagalur constituency and won by a margin of 1.81 lakh votes. In 2019 General elections she won consistently for second time gaining 7,18,916 votes, adding +6.26 percentage of votes from

Udupi Chikmagalur (Lok Sabha constituency) Udupi Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 28 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies in Karnataka a state in southern India. This constituency was created as part of the implementation of the delimitation of th ...

References

External links

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Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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